Nawaz met the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Samiul Haq group (JUI-S) chief today for a one-on-one meeting at the Prime Minister House.
Talks with the Taliban was the main issue on the agenda and Haq assured the prime minister that he will use his influence to ensure the peace process progresses in the right direction.
Nawaz has been personally meeting various political and religious leaders in order to kick startthe negotiation process with the militants.
**The prime minister took JUI-S chief into confidence over the recent military action in the Waziristan region and invited him to get personally involved in the Taliban peace talks process.
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Hoping for a good beginning to the new year, Haq said change in government policies can bring the Taliban to negotiation.
While speaking to Geo News, he also said he would help try to resolve the issue and that the core issue would be putting an end to drone strikes.
Background
It should be noted that JUI-S had earlier not been invited in the APC. His party featured nowhere in the government’s plans of initiating dialogue with the Pakistani Taliban.
Earlier, the PML-N government had invited Sami for facilitating the government’s intended peace negotiations but after receiving JUI-F chief‘s reservations, the government removed Samiul Haq’s party from its preferred list of facilitators for talks with the militant outfit.
Samiul Haq is nicknamed the ‘Father of the Taliban’ and runs a madrassa where several Taliban leaders were educated.
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it will never work ... because NS can think and try to do whatever... the AMRY only does things on its own.. it never recognizes or respects the Prime minister.. so this will be a disaster.
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Nawaz shrif and his key people are scared, confused and double minded.
among mainstream non--religious political fraternity, no one has more interaction with taliban than PMLN....PMLN knows them well and that is why the PMLN leadership expresses zero hopes for the negotiation process with taliban in private settings but when they come to the public, they start talking pro-taliban, pro-negotiation language to gain public popularity and neutralize IK..hence complete confusion!
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Staff Report RAWALPINDI: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said former president General (rtd.) Pervez Musharraf is using the name of army to save himself, SAMAA reported Wednesday. Talking to media after the inauguration of regional passport office in Rawalpindi, he ruled out any military operation being carried out in North Waziristan Agency. Responding a query regarding Maulana Samiul Haq reported to have been tasked by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to hold negotiations with Taliban, the interior minister ruled out any such report, saying no individual has been authorized …
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nisar has been a complete idiot unless nisar-nawaz unless they are playing bilawal-zardari game....bilawal will be all harsh/bullish and zrdari will be in sensible tone....nawaz will talk sense and nisar will please public!
I dont understand PMLN's policies, are they really confused or are they deliberately trying to confuse people? Playing to different galleries in the private and publicly which I dont think is in our interests.
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I dont understand PMLN's policies, are they really confused or are they deliberately trying to confuse people? Playing to different galleries in the private and publicly which I dont think is in our interests.
how can nisar take180 degree opposite position to nawaz on every isue? it is embarrassing for nawaz....has to be a noora khusti otherwise expect some major changes to pmln in next few months...
Re: Nawaz seeks Sami ul Haq's help for peace talks
Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, head of a big religious school in northwestern Akora Khattak town and teacher of many of the Taliban leaders, met the prime minister in Islamabad and "both discussed peace process with the Taliban," spokesman for the religious leader Babar Hanif said.The prime minister's media office said "Both leaders remained together for some time and discussed matters relating to national importance."Spokesman for Maulana Sami said the two leaders had a one-to- one meeting for one-and-half-hour and the talks "mainly focused on the Taliban dialogue.""The prime minister expressed his desire for early talks with the Taliban and also requested Maulana Sami-ul-Haq to initiate his efforts," a statement from the Maulan's religious school said.The religious leaders also emphasized a review of the foreign policy, urgent measures to stop US drone strikes and opposed military operation in North Waziristan tribal region, the statement said.The meetings came at a time when there is a deadlock over the Taliban talks after the Nov. 1 US drone strike which killed chief of the Pakistani Taliban, Xinhua reported.Taliban had refused to talk to the government after the killing of their chief and the government had also accused the US of sabotaging its peace plan with the Taliban.Maulana Sami-ul-Haq had offered help in peace talks with the Taliban and religious circles believe he enjoys influence on the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban and can encourage them to join the peace process.On Monday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif presided over a high level meeting of top military leaders, intelligence heads and important ministers to review the security situation and reportedly talks with the militants.
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Government did not ask Samiul Haq to hold peace talks: Sources
ISLAMABAD: The government did not task Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-S) Chief Maulana Samiul Haq to revive peace talks with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), sources told Express News on Friday.
Express News correspondent Aamir Ilyas Rana reported that sources clarified that the influential cleric had asked for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s time, and after meeting him, unilaterally announced that the government had given him the task to hold peace talks.
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I don't believe the government and the involved politicians are confused, if anything I think the timeline and charter of concluding the war with Taliban has met with utmost secrecy. The government, intelligence and army as usual has once again decided to go behind the curtains to act out their policies. Something is definitely going on, it's just the rulers and establishment feels the ordinary citizens don't deserve to know anything.
